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>>175419White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - PROCLAMATION
UNLEASHING AMERICAN COMMERCIAL FISHING IN THE ATLANTIC
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On September 15, 2016, pursuant to the Antiquities Act (54 U.S.C. 320301), President Obama issued Proclamation 9496 (Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument), which designated approximately 4,913 square miles of waters and submerged lands where the Atlantic Ocean meets the continental shelf as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
On June 5, 2020, I issued Proclamation 10049 (Modifying the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument), to remove the restrictions on commercial fishing within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. In that proclamation, I noted that many of the fish species that Proclamation 9496 identifies are highly migratory and not unique to the monument. I further noted that a host of other laws enacted after the Antiquities Act provide specific protection for other plant and animal resources both within and outside the monument.
Subsequently, on October 8, 2021, President Biden issued Proclamation 10287 (Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument), finding that commercial fishing activity has the potential to significantly degrade the monument's objects of historic and scientific interest and reinstating the prohibitions on commercial fishing within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
As explained herein, following further consideration of the nature of the objects identified in Proclamation 9496 and the protection of those objects already provided by Federal law, I find that appropriately managed commercial fishing would not put the objects of historic and scientific interest that the monument protects at risk.
All of the fish species described in Proclamation 9496 are subject to Federal protections under existing laws and executive department and agency management designations. For example, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) (Magnuson-Stevens), regulates commercial fishing to ensure long-term biological and economic sustainability for our Nation's marine fisheries, taking into account the protection of associated marine ecosystems. Magnuson-Stevens establishes regional fishery management councils, supervised by the Secretary of Commerce in coordination with the States and affected stakeholders, that develop fishery management plans to regulate our Nation's fisheries, using the best available science and observing strict conservation and management requirements. Magnuson-Stevens requires a similar process of scientific fisheries management for highly migratory species, including the tunas referenced in Proclamation 9496. In addition,
Magnuson-Stevens provides that fishery management plans may include, among other measures, management measures to conserve target and non-target species and habitats, including measures to protect deep-sea corals. Moreover, many of the fish species that Proclamation 9496 identifies are highly migratory and not unique to the monument.
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